Socialist Party of Ireland

The Socialist Party is a Trotskyist political party in Ireland, founded in 1996 by Irish Labor Party dissidents. The party opposed garbage collection fees and the water tax, and many Socialist Party members were jailed for opposing the two laws. The Socialist Party is a minor party, with Sinn Fein, the Social Democratic and Labor Party, and the Labor Party being the three main left-wing parties in the country; in 2017, the party held just 3/158 Dail Eireann seats.